Android sensors, accelerometer, GPS and etc. – Android customization. ~ Android Pioneers

First of all I would like to give you a small explanation on smart device sensors. Really, these complex electronics based technological implementations are not fuzzy, they have become simple and easy with the recent development of smart devices. Are you hoping to adjust the volume of your device automatically? Yes, indeed you can do it.

Let’s get back in to the topic. This will be really fun filled exercise for you. This is a deep learning for you to explore or troubleshoot something regarding your smart device more than you did before. Let’s take a look into built in sensors of your Android device and check the present status of them.

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Prerequisites: Most of the old generation Android devices included few sensors, latest devices are equipped with many sensors to make your work easy. I prefer you to follow up this description for a mid-generation or a latest Android device. It will be better to do this on a fairly new Android smart device. We will be using an Android app called “Sensors Multitool” for implementing below steps. Please download the app from Play store and install on your device to proceed. “Sensors Multitool” can be downloaded from the Google Play Store free of charge.

Android sensors, an overview

I hope that you have heard about the bunch of in built sensors packed inside recent Android devices to enhance and modify the user experience of smartphone holders. There are two well-known common sensors like ambient light sensor-assist you to adjust screen brightness automatically and accelerometer (consist of a gyroscope or more) that helps you by tracking physical movements, orientation of the device and etc.

You would be really amazed about the quantity of small in built sensors that modern Android devices consist of. But we will not describe each and every one of them through this discussion.

However we will be explaining several things out of them. We recommend you to conduct a further research on your smart device using Sensors Mulitoo. This application will help you to dig deep inside to your device than any app in the Play Store. Have you ever used a benchmark app on your device? Check out what is the performance ratings of your device and it will be really fun. Moreover if you having any problems or faults on sensors of your Android device, this app will assist you to find them easily before you step in to a repair centre.

Let’s begin our discussion with the explanations of common and more popular transducers and sensors. What do you think? Will it be fun or not?

GPS

Let’s start with the GPS. You may think that the GPS is some sort of a radio module. Anyway this will be a good tool that makes your life easy. When you are scrolling down the sensors and module list of “Sensors Multitool”, you will find GPS at the top of the list under the Battery option.

Let me explain some valuable advantages of having a GPS. Basically GPS defines Global Positioning System. This is mainly focused on the location services of your Android phone. Assume that you are searching something on your Google maps app and need to find the easiest route from your current location. GPS sensor will assist the Google Maps to find your current location and let you easily navigate through the route. Not only that this will be really helpful for you to play modern Android games such as Pokemon Go. Do you want to test your GPS sensor? Yes, “Sensors Multitool” will do it for you. It will show the coordinates of your current location and status of your GPS sensor.

See below images, you can see tested results on my device. If you have enough exposure to satellites you will be able to get a reading of coordinates of your current location from the values of latitude, longitude and altitude.

Light

I think you have an understanding about auto screen brightness settings on your smart device. This is directly done by the light sensors, it catches the current lux level of light intensity and compare it with the current screen brightness of your device to set the optimum screen brightness with respect to the current lux level. Open up the light sensor tab from the sensors list of the ”Sensors Multitool” and see the difference of lux level at various lighting conditions. This will be really fun. I will mention my results below.

Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Gravity, Linear acceleration, Rotation Vector and Orientation

You may think why other sensors are there? Are you playing racing games on your device? Have you ever think how you can steer your vehicle by tilting your device or how your Google cardboard or VR glass finds the direction that you are looking at? Here’s the answer. There are a bunch of sensors and transducers on your smart device that make it possible.

If you have any issue when you are playing a game, using a Google cardboard or VR glass just hop in to “Sensors Multitool” and test particular sensors. You will get upset that you don’t have a Gyroscope inside your device, but do not worry there are plenty of sensors that can fill out that shortage. I will give you a quick and brief explanation regarding other sensors.

For the measurements of movements there are accelerometer and linear acceleration meter. Linear acceleration meter is mainly focused on the on-line movements around the reference globe while the accelerometer occupies the gravitational forces occurring on your device. You may see a higher fluctuation on the graphs of the accelerometer when you are shaking the device but less fluctuation for the linear sensors. You may need to run to see a difference on the linear acceleration graph.

Finally, I would like to discover the Orientation sensors. This sensor is made as a dual-purpose one. The main objective is keeping records through the magnetic compass direction your device is facing to. The other objective is to get a three-axis measure the facing angle of your device with respect to the referenced origin. This is the most important sensor that occupies when you are playing games. Also this orientation gives you the control when mapping by allowing you to figure out the exact direction where you are heading to.

Summary of Android Sensors.

"Android Pioneers" hope you have seen common sensors occupied by android devices. All of these sensors work in collaboration to make it a great and user friendly experience for your device. Try “Sensors Multitool” to test all of the sensors on your Android smart device. Please share this article. Thank you…!

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